a rareity on this trip.

keri and mike at the continental divide, shoes dusted with snow. a field in eastern Colorado, horses bending to the ground. a harvest moon, thick and damp, rising over the Denver lights as we come down from the hills. mike, walking the dry grass in the morning, after camping on the roadside. a sleepless night, for fear that the big trucks, would run us over. the road a mere ten feet from our tents. temperatures below freezing. a nalgene filled with boiling water, thrown at the bottom of the bag is our sanctuary. sunlight. a rareity on this trip. another filed, this one nebraska, green from rain. a train, carrying things from there to here, here to there. this time, we pass the train. a blue sky, irradescent really, rising up above the sprinklers. the endlessness of nebraska. Jim Harrison on the mind. halloween. at a reststop on the roadside, washing your face in the mensroom. other shake themselves dry and flush. wash their hands to your left. move awkwardly around you, as you wash your hair, and clean your face. the makeup a nuisance.

and now, Omaha. that damn Counting crows song running the mind. tea and pastries, after sleep in a field just outside of downtown. the rain falls hard on the brick streets. tonight, Madison or Chicago. somewhere east of here. beyond the rain perhaps.

i can only imagine, that most people reading this are planning to vote tomorrow, but i remind you all. i simply cannot imagine another four years of this political nightmare. i send wishes to the skies for Kerry.

Posted by jeff pitcher at November 1, 2004 11:27 AM

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